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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Exhibitions 4 Works 4.1 Paintings 4.2 Sculptures 5 Births 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Ben Nicholson visits St. Ives, Cornwall, and meets the fisherman and painter Alfred Wallis.
• Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
• Eric Gill leaves Capel-y-ffin for Pigotts near High Wycombe.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
• Carnegie Prize - André Derain

[edit] Exhibitions

• Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.

[edit] Works

[edit] Paintings

• Tarsila do Amaral - Abaporu
• Pierre Bonnard - Flowers on a Red Carpet
• John Steuart Curry - Bathers and Baptism in Kansas
• Charles Demuth - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
• Christian Schad - Two Girlfriends
• John French Sloan - Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
• René Magritte - The Treachery of Images

[edit] Sculptures

• Wäinö Aaltonen - bust of Jean Sibelius

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 31 January - Dušan Džamonja, sculptor.
• 24 April - Cy Twombly, abstract artist.
• 28 April - Yves Klein, abstract artist (d.1962).
• 14 May - Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d.1999).
• 30 May - Pro Hart, Australian painter (d.2006).
• 3 June - Donald Judd, American sculptor (d.1994).
• 25 June - Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d.2006).
• 25 June - Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d.1992).

[edit] July to December

• 10 July - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d.1999).
• 6 August - Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d.1987).
• 9 September - Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d.2007).
• 7 October - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (d.1980).
• 12 October - Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d.2005).
• 30 October - Michael Andrews, painter (d.1995).
• 3 November - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (d.1989).
• 17 November - Arman, French-born American artist (d.2005).
• 27 November - Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d.2001).
• 2 December - Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d.1991).
• 12 December - Helen Frankenthaler, abstract expressionist painter.
• 13 December - Wolfgang Hutter, painter, lithographer and designer.
• 15 December - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d.2000).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Norman Carlberg, sculptor.
• Wally Hedrick, American artist (d.2003).

[edit] Deaths

• January 13 - Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (b. 1847)
• January 26 - Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
• March 31 - Medardo Rosso, sculptor (b. 1858)
• June 22 - A. B. Frost, illustrator (b. 1851)
• July 10 - John Chambers, landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
• December 2 - Robert Reid, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
• December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer (b. 1868)
• date unknown - Raffaello Romanelli, sculptor (b. 1856)